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CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE MARCH 2017
ust two days after Christmas this past
December, an American company called
E-Sports Entertainment Association went
through most of the stages that are now
common episodes following a cybersecurity
attack — with one notable exception.
First, ESEA learned a database containing
information on its customers had been breached by
hackers demanding $100,000. Next, the company
informed the FBI, fi xed the IT problem that allowed
the hackers to get in and released a statement to the
public that it would not give in to the demands.
Unlike the headline-making IT security
fi ascos involving Target, Yahoo and many other
organizations, however, ESEA did not have the power
to limit disclosure about exactly how many customers
may have had their information compromised.
It's all there on LeakedSource,
an online service that
launched just a few months
earlier that not only claims
1.5 million records were
stolen by hackers in the
ESEA breach but allows
individual customers to
check if they're among the
victims using a Google-like
search tool.
